Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank God we have a President who is young enough to try new ideas, mature enough to learn from his mistakes, and courageous enough to admit he was in error and try again with new faith and enthusiasm...
...write a clever review without taking a negative approach, couldn't you just for once be a little less condescending in your evaluation and exhibit a little more forthright enthusiasm...
Lahore to Pasadena. At first he thought he might want to be a missionary, but a year of teaching at missionary-run Forman College in Lahore. India (now Pakistan), killed his enthusiasm for a missionary career. Returning home in 1929, Blake married Valina Gillespie and spent the first year of his seminary training studying theology at New College, Edinburgh, then went back to Princeton Seminary until his ordination...
...Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark to provide state and local governments with $500 million in federal grants for such projects as repairing roads and sewers, building schools and libraries. Chief advocate of the bill inside the Administration was Presidential Economic Adviser Heller. But Heller's enthusiasm has been countered by Treasury Secretary Dillon's argument that with the recession fading, there is less need for pump priming and less chance of winning congressional approval for it. The outcome: an Administration decision not to push the Clark bill...
...really fascinating argument in the current debate is that the trouble with Loeb is its professionalism. In one sense one might with that were true. Unfortunately, there isn't any evidence of even modest amateurism. There is little enthusiasm, little energy, and, of course, almost no technical skill in the Harvard performances that I have seen. Worst of all, there is a paucity of intellectual excitement. There is only a crashing parochialism that mistakes quantity and variety of productions, (many of them anti-theatre obscurities) produced in a vacuous atmosphere, for theatre. Imitations of faddish trends in approach to technique...